Policing literary theory
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Policing literary theory
（Textxet : studies in comparative literature, v. 86）
Brill Rodopi, [c2018]
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Description
The present age of omnipresent terrorism is also an era of ever-expanding policing. What is the meaning - and the consequences - of this situation for literature and literary criticism? Policing Literary Theory attempts to answer these questions presenting intriguing and critical analyses of the interplays between police/policing and literature/literary criticism in a variety of linguistic milieus and literary traditions: American, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and others. The volume explores the mechanisms of formulation of knowledge about literature, theory, or culture in general in the post-Foucauldian surveillance society. Topics include North Korean dictatorship, spy narratives, censorship in literature and scholarship, Russian and Soviet authoritarianism, Eastern European cultures during communism, and Kafka's work.
Contributors: Vladimir Biti, Reingard Nethersole, Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Sowon Park, Marko Juvan, Kyohei Norimatsu, Peter Hajdu, Norio Sakanaka, John Zilcosky, Yvonne Howell, and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Editors' Introduction
Part 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism
1 After Theory: Politics against the Police?
Vladimir Biti
2 Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said's The World, the Text, and the Critic
Reingard Nethersole
3 Le cercle carre: On Spying and Reading
Calin-Andrei Mihailescu
Part 2: Case Studies
4 Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional Policing
Sowon S. Park
5 The Charisma of Theory
Marko Juvan
6 Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman's Theory of Theatricality
Kyohei Norimatsu
7 The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical Discourse
Peter Hajdu
Part 3: Policing Literary Theory across the World
8 Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery Novellas
Norio Sakanaka
9 Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance State
John Zilcosky
10 The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev's White Robes
Yvonne Howell
11 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology - Three Narratives of the Japanese Empire
Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
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